This week has been emotional, stressful, tiring. With my sisters' 4 kids under 7, including a 6 month old, my mom and I have called up to duty. She will have a mastectomy in a few weeks and then....we won't know until after the surgery.
We've always said that my mom's colon cancer 4 1/2 years ago was one of the best things that ever happened to my family. It drew us closer. It strengthened her relationship with my dad, with Jesus. It is what turned my dad's heart toward the church. Who would wish for trials? I've been studying James 1 with a group of Jr. High girls the last 7 months and it says:
Consider it pure joy, my brothers,
whenever you face trials of many kinds
because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete,
not lacking anything.
I do not wish for trials. I do want to be mature and complete. Here I am again learning to lay down my wants and surrender my time. Oh God, may you receive glory.
Nothing like cancer to make you delight in small things. I took the girls on a nature hike today. The big girls drug large sticks and Charlotte waddled after them with her twig, singing in baby language at the top of her lungs. I kept asking her if she wanted me to carry her and she would say:
No fhank ew, Mama!
What I wouldn't give to have a film crew follow me and record these moments.
Nothing like cancer to make you delight in small things. I took the girls on a nature hike today. The big girls drug large sticks and Charlotte waddled after them with her twig, singing in baby language at the top of her lungs. I kept asking her if she wanted me to carry her and she would say:
No fhank ew, Mama!
What I wouldn't give to have a film crew follow me and record these moments.
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Please call in reinforcements if they are needed. Our thoughts are with you and your sister.
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